Exam question 4 · Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas

Determine the conjunction appropriately employed to join a statement of preference to a statement of dislike.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, conjunction · What happens: determine, employ, join, state · To what, where: conjunction, statement, preference, dislike

This is exam question 4 of lesson 24 «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» of the French course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conjunction	det
3	conjunction	conjunction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	appropriately	appropriately	ADV	_	5 employed	advmod
5	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 conjunction	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 join	mark
7	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 employed	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 statement	det
9	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 join	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 preference	case
11	preference	preference	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 statement	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 statement	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 statement	det
14	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 join	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 dislike	case
16	dislike	dislike	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 statement	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the conjunction		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conjunction=Topic
2	employ	past	the conjunction not said here		appropriately property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	join	to-infinitive	the conjunction not said here	a statement of preference	to a statement of dislike	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent statement=Patient to statement=Co-Patient
4	state			preference		nom statement «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	state			dislike		nom statement «communication transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

mais

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mais	mais	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

pourquoi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pourquoi	pourquoi	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

donc

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	donc	donc	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	et	et	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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